I think I’ve read Shardik, a few years ago. Maybe I just started reading it, and couldn’t make it to the end?
It’s obviously a memorable book.
John Knowles is best known for A Seperate Peace. I’ve read *Peace Breaks * *Out * and it is nowhere near as good.
Name the guy who wrote the original book “Phantom of the Opera.” Name something else he wrote.
Gaston LeRoux and I have absolutely no idea.
Interesting how times and fashions change. In a poll taken in the 1930s LeRoux was listed as one of the top ten authors of weird stuff, and the favorite book was “The Yellow Room”, which is still in print from Dover. If you look in the recently re-released “The Essential Phantom of the Opera” you’ll find a complete list of his works.
As for A. Merritt, the general feeling is that his stuff was not formulaic – His “Seven Footsteps to Satan” is highly regarded, and “The Metal Monster” isn’t like any other story I’ve come across. But I’m not a fan – I found Moon Pool and Metal Monster heavy going, and never read any of his other stuff.
Richard Adams followed Watership Down with “The Plague Dogs”, which I didn’t like all that much. Shardik was so bad that I never read anything else he wrote.
How about Mitchell and Gone With the Wind?
D’Oh! :smack:
Actually you can buy some of her other works, at least at her house in Amsterdam. I know she wrote some short stories, but don’t know anything about them.
Mary Shelly wrote “Frankenstein.”
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre. (Yes, some people like her second book–me not being one of them–but in general I think it is fair to say it is not considered a great classic.)
Peter Beagle wrote The Last Unicorn, and none of his other books have been as popular.
Robert Pirsig wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance. His follow-up, Lila, was well recieved in many circles, but again, I think it is safe to say it did not reach the same level of popularity as the first one. Speaking strictly personally, I would also say it did not achieve anywhere near the greatness of the first, either.
Good call.
And her sister’s Wuthering Heights.
Yes, but she only wrote the one book (which the OP excludes).
Mine sure doesn’t. In fact, I thought ASTP was the best of the three. Looking back, I’m actually quite surprised at how dark the story is.
My bad. I was thinking Agnes Grey was hers, but it was her sister Anne’s.
Carry on.
Can you name another Stephen King book except “The Eyes of the Dragon”?
I can’t.
L. Frank Baum wrote dozens of books, but The Wizard of Oz is more popular than all the rest combined.
Fred Exley wrote the magnificent A Fan’s Notes–Seriously, you should read this–and two very mediocre sequels. This led Jonathan Yardley to say “There’s no shame in being a one book author.”
Also I don’t know if Kingsley Amis wrote anything that came up to the level of Lucky Jim
Do you only read children’s books?
Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Green Mile, Misery, The Shining, etc. etc. King is very prolific.
Those were ALL him?
Who knew? Geez.
Ernest Hemmingway with…
Never mind, He didn’t write any books that weren’t really some sort of masturbatory twaddle, or pretty much unreadable.
Well, in the U.S., at least, “Don Quixote” is the only thing anyone reads by Cervantes.
“The Jungle” is about the only thing anyone reads by Upton Sinclair.